Fantasticks An American Musical
Try to remember a time when the musical, The Fantasticks, wasnt running at the small Sullivan Street Playhouse at 181 Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village, NY . ... The Fantasticks has come to an end. ... 75 a pop, The Fantasticks got off to a very rocky start. ... It actually begins back in 1894, with the obscure French play Les Romanesques by Edmund Rostand which The Fantasticks is based on. In 1959, two friends, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones graduated from the University of Texas and wrote a new full-length musical entitled Joy Comes to Dead Horse. This was first staged at Barnard College in the summer of 1959 as a one-act musical where Lore Noto was in attendance. ... The troubles for The Fantasticks didn’t end opening night though. ... This woman joined other persistent followers closing night in the narrow passageway leading into the 150-seat theatre while others watched a live feed of the performance on a television monitor in an upstairs gallery where Fantasticks memorabilia was once displayed. ... Simplicity is a very big theme in this musical. ... To give a perspective as to just how long it has been since The Fantasticks opened, it has outlasted nine presidents and predates Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. ... This musical has touched my heart, as well as the hearts of millions of others. ... For some reason I doubt this restaurant will affect people quite like the musical did.